Humphrey Bogart

Noir City: Hollywood festival is a walk on the dark side of film

2013-04-03 16:58:00

There is something mesmerizing — almost addictive — about the classic film noirs of the 1940s and '50s, with their darkened, rain-drenched streets and narrow alleys inhabited by anti-heroes sporting well-worn raincoats and crushed fedoras....

American Cinematheque celebrates the 'Lubitsch touch'

2013-03-28 06:00:00

German-born director Ernst Lubitsch, who came to Hollywood in the 1920s, had such a deft hand with comedies that it became known as "the Lubitsch touch." The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre in Santa Monica is to celebrate "A Touch of Laughter:...

Fred Couples can tell you some Riviera Country Club history

2013-02-14 00:00:00

Ben Hogan bought the fairway to heaven, Humphrey Bogart no longer stands pickled and perched beneath the sycamore on No. 12 and member Jim Murray isn't around to describe Riviera Country Club, as he once did, as "like a coquettish woman who winks at you...

Review: Casa 0101 honors Valdez's 'Badges' with a winning revival

2013-02-12 13:05:00

In 1986, when Luis Valdez’s play “I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinking Badges” premiered in Los Angeles, its portrait of an upwardly mobile Latino�family in Monterey Park shattered Hollywood stereotypes. Buddy Villa wasn’...

Jeanine Basinger examines movie marriage in 'I Do and I Don't'

2013-02-01 10:00:00

Jeanine Basinger's "I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies" (Alfred A. Knopf: 432 pp., $30) is a breezy, fun excursion into Hollywood's presentation of matrimony, from the earliest days of cinema through the modern era. But rather than...

Top 5 tough-guy actors who can sing and dance

2013-01-02 06:00:00

Tough guys do dance and sing. With two of Hollywood’s biggest manly men now starring in the same film, there’s a good chance that some of their male fans secretly wish they were seeing Wolverine versus Maximus. Instead, Hugh Jackman and...

California Weekend Escape: Lone Pine a cinematic slice of Old West

2012-09-30 00:00:00

Hollywood loves Lone Pine, Calif., a dusty town in the Eastern Sierra. Since 1920, crews have been making the 3 1/2- drive to shoot hundreds of movies, TV shows and commercials with the majestic Mt. Whitney and the knobby Alabama Hills as backdrops....

Southern California Close-Ups: Pasadena and environs

2012-06-05 10:30:00

First published on Nov. 27, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. It's 1922, and nothing much is up in Pasadena. Not among the orange groves, not along the leafy streets. Just as the little old ladies like it. But wait. Down in the Arroyo Seco, a...

Around Town: 'Paper Moon' shines on downtown festival

2012-05-24 07:26:43

Around Town: 'Mean Streets' pays tribute to Fellini film

2012-05-17 16:38:15

'Casablanca' to screen on Facebook Wednesday

2012-05-15 16:38:22

Oscar doesn't always get it wrong. Bogart was nominated for his most famous film -- 1942's "Casablanca" -- and won for 1951's "The African Queen," yet he was not nominated for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," "To Have and Have Not," "The Maltese Falcon" (pictured) and "In a Lonely Place." Oops.

2013-02-22 12:01:29

An image of Humphrey Bogart adorns the cover of Black Clock issue No. 15.

2013-01-28 13:44:41

For the HBO shocker's sixth season finale, Zemeckis, one of the series' executive producers, came back to direct the episode "You, Murderer," which starred, of all people, Humphrey Bogart.

2012-10-19 07:35:46